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Gift of the Printed Page

"There is a kinship, a oneness that yokes a reader and his book in a way technology has not achieved. A book is a true yokefellow that affords an intimate privacy for its reader. It shuts out all else. The printed page can teach any subject and travel to any destination. And always, it bids you come. To those early scribes and Herr Guttenberg and his press we must ever be grateful.